Orange Cinema Review
Rating: 3/5
Genre : Comedy, Romance
Banner: Anjana Productions
Starring: Ram Charan, Genelia, Shazahn Padamsee, Brahmanandam, Prabhu, Prakash Raj, Nagababu, Manjula, Madhurima, Pooja and others.
Music: Harris Jairaj
Cinematography: D. Rajasekhar, Kiran Reddy
Editor: Marthand K. Venkatesh
Producer: Nagababu
Director: Bommarillu Bhaskar
Ramcharan is back after giving the industry a super hit like ‘Magadheera.’ The movie sees director Baskar burdened with retaining the image for Charan’s Megastar status. Harris Jayaraj refreshing tunes have already topped the charts. Genelia is back trying for her first hit in 2010. Producer Naga Babu has lavisly overspent more than the needful with entire shooting done in Australia… ‘Orange’ arrived today as a treat to Charan Fans. Let us see, how color is there in the ‘Color of Love’?
Story
Ram (Ramcharan Teja) is a youngster living in Sydney, Australia with sister (Manjula) and brother-in-law (Sanjay Swaroop). Ram is looking out for a new girl to fall in love with after having earlier fallen in love with nine girls already. Ram believes that ‘True Love’ is good only for some period of time but fades away with time. He thinks that with the passage of time, the intensity of love decreases and slowly it becomes conditional searching for ‘Reasons’ to separate any two lovers. So, Ram believes in the policy of ‘Short-term Love’.
Jaanu (Genelia) is a bubbly and cheerful college going girl who is unaware of what love is and is fascinated to have a boyfriend. It’s not long before Ram falls in love with Jaanu’s innocence and Jaanu reciprocates his feelings. However, the two are as different as chalk and cheese. Ram likes sky-diving, painting graffiti and shooting wild-life photography. Quite romantic one would think. But Ram is too straightforward and in the process of making Jaanu fall for him, Ram tells her that he’s had nine girl friends already. The girls is in a quandary when Ram tells Jaanu of his belief in the concept of ‘Short-term Love’ and Jaanu is in a fix whether to accept Ram’s harsh truth about how love fades.
Jaanu finds Ram’s beliefs convincing when she sees her own friends’ love stories fall apart. But Jaanu is adamant that love is ever-lasting and tries to convince Ram about it. But Ram doesn’t think so. What is the reason for Ram thinking this way? Here the story is taken in a flashback mode to Ram’s college days where he fell in love with Ruba (Shazahn Padamsee). Over time, Ram gradually looses his self-identity, changes his friends, tastes and on a whole he looses his independence; all for the sake of Ruba who is selfish in wanting Ram to love and live just for herself. The result is a break up which led Ram to change his philosophy about love.
How Jaanu, her father (Prabhu), the Sydney Police Officer (Prakash Raj), Ram’s neighbor (Naga Babu) make Ram understand the meaning of true love forms the climax of the story.
Analysis for Orange Movie
Director Bhaskar is clearly reeling with a Bommarillu hangover, in this movie Orange instead of a father-son conflict it is a conflict between a pair of lovers over their ideologies. The point is simple, the hero considers himself the world’s greatest lover, is obsessed with his likes and dislikes and keeps falling in love with many girls without promising a commitment.
Orange starts off on a confusing note with the first half lacking clarity. The characters behave in an awkward manner and it takes time for the audience to get used to their ideology. The narration however settles down after the first song and the pace picks up. The hero’s typical characterization forms the essence of the love story and infuses comedy into the proceedings of the story.
The first half of the movie runs smoothly and is supported by good music. Because of the simple and direct storyline, the director hasn’t gone beating around the bush. Post-interval, the movie has a very good start with some few well-written scenes. Orange Love Idi and Rooba Rooba which come in the second half of the movie are well picturized songs.
However, the movie falls once it starts to explain the ideology about everlasting love. The film heads towards an unconvincing climax where the hero suddenly changes his mind-set all of a sudden and the audience is left confused of what is going on the screen especially in the last half hour of the movie.
Good Points:
Subject chosen is tough and Bhaskar should be applauded for choosing a story of this kind.
Songs and colorful visuals stand out
The lead couple look million bucks
Bad Points:
Difficulty believing the hero falling in love again and again inspite of not believing in love
Difficult to believe that heroine would fall in love with someone who doesn’t believe in love
One-liners:
Amailu love cheyali ante nalugu avadhalu,moodu kulu jokulu ,rendu sms lu,oka flower
Brahmi Dialogue : “Eroju love ki holiday echadu puppy”
Preminche premaku kalam ekkuva ayye kodhi Prema lo abhadalu ekkuvaipothayi
Kaaranala tho vidipothe .. Life lo kaaranalatho migilipotham ..
Performance
Both Ramcharan and Genelia look awesome. They not only compete with each other with their expressions, but also end up winning hearts. Performance wise, Ramcharan steals the show as the lover boy. With good looks and great body language especially in the songs, he is sure to steal many young hearts. Genelia has continued the same bubbly character of ‘Bommarillu’ in entire first half of this movie but coming to second half, she delivered a settled performance. Shazahn Padamsee has a short but key role in the second half of the movie and she looks beautiful and acts well.
Madhurima is there in a guest role too. Gayatri Rao of Happy Days, Vennela Kishore don’t have big roles either, but they do whatever they are given with conviction. Actors like Prakash Raj, Prabhu, Manjula, Sanjay Swaroop do their bits well, but it is Brahmanandam as Puppy, who evokes maximum laughs in the theaters. Naga Babu has a very small role but is just terrific!
Technical Departments:
Making a film such as this one is like walking on a tight rope, and Bhaskar isn’t always successful with this. Though the subject is good, the script has many loose ends which made the narration partially ineffective. Dialogues and screenplay work very well for most part of the movie.
Cinematography by Rajasekhar is top notch and this can be regarded as one of the best in 2010. Editing by Marthand K Venkatesh is abrupt and could have been better. Music by Harris Jayaraj stand out of the movie and the background is exuberating. Re-recording adds a lot of feel to the movie. Production values of Naga Babu and Anjana Productions are superb. Few of Charan’s fans might be disappointed the way his dances have been choreographed. The fight scenes were really not reuired and the skydiving fight was totally unnecessary.
Final Verdict
Orange will appeal more to the urban and young crowd with its blend of good entertainment and comedy. However, it doesn’t make any sense when such a topic is dealt with half-baked truths that are based because on one or two emotional situations. The film’s commercial success leaves many questions considering the high costs involved. The overall outcome of the movie will depend on how it fares in B and C grade centers. By and large, the movie will be an average or a little above average movie at the box-office.
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